DNA is maybe 60-750MB of data

18 MattSayar 3 5/8/2025, 3:48:05 PM dynomight.net ↗

Comments (3)

biomcgary · 52m ago
Your genome only needs to store the information necessary for the lineage leading to you to survive and compete in the range of environmental variation that actually happened.

Consequently, your DNA has less information about how to survive on Jupiter or in the absence of oxygen.

However, your genome contains a fair amount of data on how to identify a mate that will maximize your reproductive success in an environment similar to the one your lineage experienced, e.g., a preference for symmetrical faces.

Until we can measure the environment of humans accurately, all the algorithmic complexity measures applied to the genome are going to be missing the relevant context.

hulitu · 20m ago
> DNA is maybe 60-750MB of data

maybe